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10 Years of Impact: The 3M/Coleman Family Foundation Scholarship

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In 2021, the 3M/Coleman Family Foundation Scholarship reached two significant milestones—10 years and more than 100 scholarship awards!

Michael Heuer in Heuer Soil Lab
Department News

New Fund Established: Heuer Soils Lab Operations Fund

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Michael M. and Nancy L. Heuer Soil Mechanics Laboratory Operations Fund was established by alumnus Michael Heuer.

Bret Weiss
Department News

Bret Weiss Takes Action to Diversify CE

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Bret Weiss (P.E., BCE 1987) realized that if his company, WSB, wanted to hire under-represented groups, it couldn’t rely on referrals from existing employees, nor count on technical school programs, which can be prohibitively expensive. They needed to recruit and introduce people to the field. After two years of planning, WSB launched a four-month, free-of-charge evening class in surveying and materials testing. It offers a stepping stone to high-demand jobs.

Fall 2020 CEGE magazine cover
Department News

CEGE Magazine Fall 2020

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Features include
COVID-19-related research from CEGE
Dennis Kim: alumnus offers hope
Svetlana Baranova: graduate student with passion for mathematical problem solving

International students and professors
Department News

Solidarity and Support for all members of CEGE Community

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We are all in this together! CEGE embraces contributions of students and scholars of all nationalities, creeds, and cultures.

Department News, Student Activities

Svetlana Baranova presents at Cambridge

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Svetlana Baranova, a Ph.D. student advised by Sonia Mogilevskaya, presented a poster at the workshop “Computational Complex Analysis” as part of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI) in Cambridge, UK.

Department News, Student Activities

CEGE celebrates graduate student and faculty diversity

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Currently, graduate students in CEGE represent eight different countries and faculty members represent several more.

Department News

Driving transportation research in CEGE

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CEGE welcomes a new transportation engineer to the faculty, Raphael Stern. Stern will study and teach topics at the intersection of technology and transportation including autonomous vehicles. Of particular interest to Stern is how technologies such as increased vehicle automation will influence transportation.

Department News

2019 Fall Issue of CEGE Magazine

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Student Kat Hetico, researcher John Gulliver, alumna and advisory board member Ali Ling, and more in our latest magazine!

Michelle Anderson
Department News

CEGE Advisory Board

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The CEGE vision: Inspired and innovative engineering for society. Our culture is one of excellence, using rigorous fundamentals for wide-ranging applications. Our teaching and research covers a broad spectrum, is interdisciplinary, and has an emphasis on science and fundamentals.